When someone Googles “Quevedo“, the first result is no longer the poet of the Golden Age, Pedro Luis Dominguez Quevedo (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2001), the artist who has revolutionized the world music scene with her muffled voice in recent months, certain differences of opinion about Rosalia’s consecration and figure as the summer song of ‘Quédate’ along with ‘Desspechá’.
Its success is atypical in many ways: not having a multinational company to support it, He did not release any albums, and his repertoire was reduced to twenty songs, most of them collaborative works.
But with DJ and producer Strange (Gonzalo Julián Conde, Buenos Aires, 1998). Argentine musician, la 52, is the fastest growing in number of reproductions, although it is also home to artists such as DJ Nathy Peluso residentLeveraging the session to start a notorious war against J Balvin.
His mega success with Bizarrap is already 319 million views It was featured on Spotify and topped the charts such as the Billboard Global 200, Billboard Global and Spain’s Los 40, excluding the USA.
But earlier, the first major international collaboration with Ed Sheeran suddenly appeared, making him the only Spanish-speaking artist to collaborate with the British on his ‘Album.=‘, ‘ with a remix2 Steps‘.
canary city school
Thus, despite dropping to number two, Quevedo is already wearing the medal for being the longest-running Spanish artist on the Spotify Global chart for five weeks (could say the same for his “partner” Bizarrap Argentina). , and this is awareness of urban music”Made in the Canary Islands” seems to set the agenda for emerging music in this genre.
They’ve already demonstrated this with “Cayó la noche”, a song that has garnered over 175 million views on that platform and is a kind of punch on the desk of a thriving school with outstanding students like the following. Cruz Cafuné, Juseph, The Panther, Abhir Hathi or The Imaall from the archipelago.
And the seal bearing Quevedo, ground taste, seems to know the formula for converting “underground” to “underground”mainstream“, a bit far from mainland Spain, with a portfolio full of Canarian-accented productions based mostly on Latin and Caribbean rhythms, reggaeton and trap sounds.
In fact, Taste the Floor is also the home of El Herreño. Patrickfamed with ‘I don’t count’, and other pioneering artists of Spanish urban music from the islands, such as Bejo and Don Patricio, together with himself and Uge, was called Locoplaya, also from the Canary Islands.
This label also includes other environmental artists who have been successful recently, for example bad girl (Barcelona), Caliphate 3/4 (Seville) or Foyone (Malaga).
Prison, Times Square and Ibai
While he was almost unknown in the Spanish music scene until months ago, Quevedo’s success has been simmering since he decided to write his own songs and upload them to streaming platforms and released several songs due to the covid-19 pandemic. like ‘Moon’, ‘Don’t tell me anything’ or ‘Gray’.
The most successful of that time ‘Now and always’, It’s already aired in 2021 and has surpassed 67 million views since its premiere, according to Spotify data.
Also, the rise in the last three months since May has made it appear on Times Square screens as one of the artists on Spotify’s radar, just before releasing “Stay”, to which “streamer” Ibai Llanos reacted. live via Twitch and then invite him to sing at the event boxing Evening of the Year, organized by Basque, was followed by more than three million viewers through this platform.
After that, Quevedo continued by touring the major urban music events and festivals in Spain that he is still involved in, and this served to start a controversy that his followers despised:auto tuning” and “Playback“.
His defenders say that Quevedo sang most of his set and that it was only when his latest hit, ‘Quédate’, came out. prefers to leave the microphone on the floorDJ the track and listen to thousands of people chant the song as you dance with friends on stage.
About this, Quevedo joked on Instagram and got the iron on some”storiesHis manager told Efe that as he is not currently accepting interviews, it is the only way for him to communicate with his followers and the rest of the world.